David Maxwell

An Australian author who writes in his spare time, he says he loves the process of storytelling as much as the ideas behind it. On his author site, he also shares interests beyond books, including travel, hiking, scuba diving, science, and life with his wife and greyhound.

He describes fantasy writers such as Patrick Rothfuss, N. K. Jemisin, and Will Wight as influences that helped him see how broad and flexible the genre could be. That sense of possibility led him to start asking his own "what if" questions and building stories from there.

His website presents him as the author of Daughter of the Manifold. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.